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An American officer speaking with a fighter from the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) at the site of Turkish airstrikes near the northeastern Syrian Kurdish town of Derik, known as al-Malikiyah in Arabic, on April 25, 2017.

The U.S. says it is pulling out of Syria: Who benefits? Who suffers?

August 22, 2019 at 10:08 a.m.

The Trump administration's surprise decision Wednesday to pull all U.S. troops from Syria "as quickly as possible" sent ripples far beyond the battlefield. It was a dramatic about-face that will...

Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok in The Hague on May 25, 2018. He is under fire for controversial remarks over immigrants and labeling former colony Suriname "a failed state."

Do multicultural societies breed violence?

May 31, 2019 at 4:22 p.m.

Last month, the Dutch prime minister set the Internet on fire when he deigned to clean up his own spilled coffee. Now, the country's foreign minister is drawing a very...

A Chinese entrepreneur found out the hard way that not everything is meant to be shared. The founder of an umbrella-sharing startup says nearly 300,000 umbrellas have been stolen.

A Chinese umbrella-sharing startup just lost nearly all of its 300,000 umbrellas

June 3, 2018 at 7:50 a.m.

In May, Bloomberg ran a story titled "China Is the Future of the Sharing Economy." "Conditions," it promised, "are ideal for the sector to thrive." Bike-sharing in the country is...

We’re about to suffer a worldwide olive oil shortage

June 5, 2018 at 10:19 p.m.

It might be the saddest quote you read today: "Olive oil is becoming a luxury." That comes courtesy of Italian chef Francesco Mazzei, who runs the Italian restaurant Sartoria in...

Report: 3 men raped a woman in Sweden on Facebook Live

August 21, 2019 at 9:51 p.m.

It was broadcast, live, to thousands of viewers: three men in an apartment, raping a young woman. The men could be heard saying, "You have been raped" and "Three against...

Japan’s employees are literally working themselves to death

June 6, 2018 at 7:58 a.m.

The Japanese might be the hardest working people in the world. Employees there sleep less and work longer hours than almost anywhere else. The culture is so rigorous that there's...

Report: Girls are equal to math test

August 22, 2021 at 3:09 a.m.

Desiree Epps-Davis, 14, says she struggles every day to convince some teachers at her Chicago public school that she is just as good at math as the boys in her...

The Mattel loophole

August 21, 2021 at 9:06 p.m.

Some companies would be permitted to skirt independent lab testing of children's products in favor of their own in-house certification, thanks in large part to lobbying by the world's biggest...

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